William Lee Adams

William Lee Adams is a journalist in London and a former correspondent at TIME’s London bureau. He has reported from Roma slums in Bucharest, maximum security prisons in Norway, and the world’s largest song contest for children in Ukraine, and interviewed fashion designers including Diane von Furstenberg, Christian Louboutin and Vivienne Westwood. Half-Vietnamese and half-American, Adams grew up in Fayetteville, Georgia, and holds degrees from Harvard and the School of Oriental and African Studies.

It’s still balmy in London, but Dmitry Chernyshenko, the president and chief executive of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, has ice and snow on his mind. Here he talks to TIME about the preparations for the Sochi Games.